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📬️Open Mailbox With Raised Flag Emoji
The open mailbox with raised flag emoji 📬️ carries the codepoint U+1F4EC U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 7.0 (2014). It belongs to Objects → Mail.
What 📬️ open mailbox with raised flag means
Messages, deliveries and inboxes. ✉️ and 📧 mark contact details in a bio, 📩 was the older way of saying check your DMs, and 📦️ tracks a parcel through the whole shipping saga. The mailboxes with raised and lowered flags encode an American postal convention many users never decode. Unicode also files the ballot box 🗳️ here, which surprises people writing about elections.
Unicode tags this one flag, mail and mailbox and files it under Objects → Mail.
Copy variants
open mailbox with raised flag carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 📬️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 📬U+1F4ECopen mailbox with raised flag
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4EC U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📬️ | |
| HTML decimal | 📬️ | |
| CSS | \1F4EC\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4EC}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F4EC\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCEC\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f4ec}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4EC}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4EC}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%AC%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 AC EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCEC FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+TrO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128236 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
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How to type 📬️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “open mailbox with raised flag”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “flag”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4ecand Enter. - HTML — paste
📬️.
How 📬️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 📬️Apple
- 📬️Segoe
- 📬️Noto
- 📬️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 📬️ open mailbox with raised flag emoji mean?+
📬️ is the open mailbox with raised flag emoji, tagged flag, mail and mailbox. Messages, deliveries and inboxes. ✉️ and 📧 mark contact details in a bio, 📩 was the older way of saying check your DMs, and 📦️ tracks a parcel through the whole shipping saga. The mailboxes with raised and lowered flags encode an American postal convention many users never decode. Unicode also files the ballot box 🗳️ here, which surprises people writing about elections.
What is the Unicode code for 📬️?+
open mailbox with raised flag is U+1F4EC U+FE0F. In HTML that is 📬️, in CSS \1F4EC\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F4EC}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📬️ emoji added?+
open mailbox with raised flag got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Mail in Objects.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📬️ open mailbox with raised flag.